Sunday, July 25, 2010

Our fifth Craft Academy project was painted rocks. It's a fun and simple little project. The hardest part (believe it or not) was finding big rocks to paint! Who knew they would be so hard to find??? I really don't have any big rocks around my house and I couldn't find any to buy unless I bought a huge bag so I gave in and bought some small rocks at the craft store.

It was very difficult to cut such a tiny pattern out of tape so my first attempt didn't go so well. I think I was using too much paint so it went through the tape.

I had already painted a rock white when I was doing my first set of rocks, but since the stencils weren't working I decided to just make a little circle with my paint brush and make a flower. It's not very good but I just wanted to put something on the rock so it didn't get wasted. This was a five second painting. ;-)

Don't worry. I did a little better on the second attempt. :-) I ended up cutting the patterns out of cardstock and using a sponge brush instead of a regular brush. That seemed to work a little bit better on the smaller rocks. I will have to try the tape stencils again later if I have larger rocks.

I did find one really big rock at the last minute that was the perfect shape for a longhorn stencil. So, I cut a stencil out of carstock and painted it. I think it turned out pretty good.

I think this would be a good project for decorations in a flower bed or in the yard. That's where my rocks will live. :-)

My name is marci. I live in Austin, Texas. I spend most of my time sewing up my cute and colorful creations for Dreaming in Craft where you can find felt and fabric plushies, accessories, pouches, purses and fun home decorations. When I’m not sewing up cuteness for Dreaming in Craft I like to blog about things that inspire me like music, photography, art, books, yoga, movies and tv and all things cute and creative.